Up Ship Creek Without a Missile
on November 16, 2016
at 12:00 am
They should also learn to chuck broken gas grills at enemy ships. Feel like I seem them on roadsides all the time. Grills I mean — not enemy ships.
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I can still remember when my brother first told me what shotgun shells cost “Wait, you mean I’m shooting a soda can’s value out each time? Fuck this I’m out, coke <3"
“I am Heavy Weapons Guy. And THIS is my weapon. She ways one hundred fifty kilograms and fires two hundred dollar custom-tooled cartridges at ten thousand rounds per minute.
It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon, for twelve seconds.” –Team Fortress 2 “Meet the Heavy” trailer
There’s a game called “World of Warships” where you fight naval battles with WW1-2 ships. The price of ammo is so high you’re almost afraid to shoot; but the price of getting sunk is higher. XD
Never really noticed the price of ammo. Nothing substantial.
World of Tanks, the ammo can bankrupt you. Quite easily if you’re not running a premium account.
Card Game – Navel War
The smaller calibers were more plentiful but did less damage and were used by the smaller ships.
I think there were two ships with the HUGE guns and maybe 3 or 4 rounds of ammo in the game BUT one shot would sink anything.
Sounds familiar.
Anti-gun people with connections want to skirt the 2nd Amendment by making ammunition prohibitively expense.
Some of those same people don’t like war.
You’re an idiot.
The reason the ammo for the railgun artillery being priced so high is because it has to be designed to withstand the extreme accelerations it undergoes. Its muzzle velocity can reach over 3 kilometers/second, well beyond anything conventional cannons are capable of.
Also because it has to be very precisely made, or it will either 1.) not fire, 2.) not fire as fast, or 3.) coat the inside of the rails with molten projectile. I mean, it already does #3, I think, but it would do it more.
The high price tag Adam is referring to is not even for railgun ammo, but for the currently-installed 155mm Advanced Gun System’s LRLAP rounds on DDG-1000 Zumwalt.
I think you just invented all those words :S
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Land_Attack_Projectile
Yeah…. I’m sure none of that cost is from regulation fees and licenses.
Sulu! Fire the futon torpedoes!
Hahaha! How did I miss that?!
Dang it where is the up-votes for funny?
This highlights the problem the United States has with asymmetric warfare.
On one side, you’ve got a guy with a laser guided anti-vehicle rocket thingy. On the other side, you’ve got a guy in a Toyota Hi-Lux with an AK-47. Who wins?
Well… the Hi-Lux blows up, of course, and that guy is more likely to die. But the thing about a war is that wars are won by who runs out of money first — and that missile cost more than the truck. So “who won” isn’t as clear as you might think…
Unless that was the only guy being fought against.
I believe that the expression is to use a million dollar missle to blow up a fifty dollar tent.
You could get TWO tents.
As long as they’re close enough together.
I find I’m depressed on Tuesdays and Thursdays now. Probably because I’m not out of the habit of coming to Bug Martini on those days… 🙁
Well maybe someday soon someone will be drawing a second webcomic that’ll update on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
STRONG FEMALE PROTAGONIST is Tuesdays and Fridays, which gets you halfway there. But it’s a story-comic, not a joke-comic. http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/
Also, it helps to enjoy it if you’re as bleeding-heart-liberal as I am.